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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Adoption lingo
Adoption Day: the day you swear to care for and love your child and sign the official adoption papers.
Bio: an abbreviation for "biological"
CCAA: China Center of Adoption Affairs, the governmental agency in China which processes all adoptive families dossiers and all of China's paper-ready orphans including translation, approval, and matching of families to children.
DOR: date of referral.
Dossier: pronounced "doss-ee-ay", a collection or file of documents on the same subject, especially a complete file containing detailed information about a person or topic.
DTC: Dossier To China, this is the date a family's adoption agency mailed their dossier to China
Family Coordinator: the wonderful person at an adoption agency who guides a family throughout the adoption process coordinating all aspects of the adoption, answering questions, praying for and encouraging their families.
Gotcha Day: the day you finally get to meet and hold your child and take him/her with you.
Home Study: A social investigation where a social worker interviews prospective adoptive parents concerning their background and their ability to raise a child. Often this is done in a series of interviews (4 for China), with at least one interview in the home. It can also include information to help an individual or couple to prepare for adoption. Homestudies can become "outdated". There is a time period, usually 18 months, before a homestudy needs to be updated.
I-171H: the approval form you must have from USCIS to adopt a foreign-born child.
LID: Log-In-Date, the date that China received our dossier and logged it into their system; this is a family's spot in the queue at the CCAA
LOA: Letter of Acceptance
LOI: Letter of Intent
"Mei-mei": the Chinese word for "little sister".
PA: Pre-approval.
Paper-chase: the act of gathering up all the paper work that is needed for the dossier.
Paper "pregnancy": the stage of adoption where the parents are gathering all their needed documents for their dossier
Paper-ready: an adjective used to describe an orphan who has been examined and registered with the CCAA to be adopted.
Re-adoption: refers to a process by which a U.S. state court in the state of the parents' or sole parent's, as applicable, residence reviews the details of the adoption abroad along with additional information as it deems necessary, and issues a new adoption decree, independent from the foreign decree, stating that the child has been adopted in conformity with the adoption law of the applicable state. The ultimate purpose is to ensure that your child by adoption is entitled to all of the rights that he or she should have as your child under U.S. federal and state law.
Referral: The information a family receives about their child which includes two 3x5 photos, one passport size photo, a medical report with coinciding lab results and graphs, a growth report and one to two pages of biographical information.
SN: Special Needs, refers to children who are physically, developmentally or emotionally disabled, or an older child who might remain in institutionalized care should no adoptive family be available.
Social orphan: a child whose families cannot care for them due to extreme poverty, abuse, incarceration or abandonment.
SW: Social Worker
TA: Travel Approval, the approval to travel to another country for adoption and the dates you will be there.
True orphan: a child with no parents or extended family to care for them.
USCIS: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, formerly the INS.
Waiting Children: Another term for children with special needs, especially children who are in need of homes to be adopted into. Also children who are older than five years of age.
Bio: an abbreviation for "biological"
CCAA: China Center of Adoption Affairs, the governmental agency in China which processes all adoptive families dossiers and all of China's paper-ready orphans including translation, approval, and matching of families to children.
DOR: date of referral.
Dossier: pronounced "doss-ee-ay", a collection or file of documents on the same subject, especially a complete file containing detailed information about a person or topic.
DTC: Dossier To China, this is the date a family's adoption agency mailed their dossier to China
Family Coordinator: the wonderful person at an adoption agency who guides a family throughout the adoption process coordinating all aspects of the adoption, answering questions, praying for and encouraging their families.
Gotcha Day: the day you finally get to meet and hold your child and take him/her with you.
Home Study: A social investigation where a social worker interviews prospective adoptive parents concerning their background and their ability to raise a child. Often this is done in a series of interviews (4 for China), with at least one interview in the home. It can also include information to help an individual or couple to prepare for adoption. Homestudies can become "outdated". There is a time period, usually 18 months, before a homestudy needs to be updated.
I-171H: the approval form you must have from USCIS to adopt a foreign-born child.
LID: Log-In-Date, the date that China received our dossier and logged it into their system; this is a family's spot in the queue at the CCAA
LOA: Letter of Acceptance
LOI: Letter of Intent
"Mei-mei": the Chinese word for "little sister".
PA: Pre-approval.
Paper-chase: the act of gathering up all the paper work that is needed for the dossier.
Paper "pregnancy": the stage of adoption where the parents are gathering all their needed documents for their dossier
Paper-ready: an adjective used to describe an orphan who has been examined and registered with the CCAA to be adopted.
Re-adoption: refers to a process by which a U.S. state court in the state of the parents' or sole parent's, as applicable, residence reviews the details of the adoption abroad along with additional information as it deems necessary, and issues a new adoption decree, independent from the foreign decree, stating that the child has been adopted in conformity with the adoption law of the applicable state. The ultimate purpose is to ensure that your child by adoption is entitled to all of the rights that he or she should have as your child under U.S. federal and state law.
Referral: The information a family receives about their child which includes two 3x5 photos, one passport size photo, a medical report with coinciding lab results and graphs, a growth report and one to two pages of biographical information.
SN: Special Needs, refers to children who are physically, developmentally or emotionally disabled, or an older child who might remain in institutionalized care should no adoptive family be available.
Social orphan: a child whose families cannot care for them due to extreme poverty, abuse, incarceration or abandonment.
SW: Social Worker
TA: Travel Approval, the approval to travel to another country for adoption and the dates you will be there.
True orphan: a child with no parents or extended family to care for them.
USCIS: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, formerly the INS.
Waiting Children: Another term for children with special needs, especially children who are in need of homes to be adopted into. Also children who are older than five years of age.
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